Interactive: Recent train-vehicle incidents across Canada

TORONTO – Investigators are probing why an Ottawa city bus crashed through a safety barrier on Wednesday, Sept. 18 and slammed into a Via Rail train, killing six people, and injuring dozens more.

The incident is Canada’s deadliest rail crossing crash in more than five years, according to a Transportation Safety Board database of accidents from January 1, 2008 through March 8, 2012.

It’s also the highest fatality count of any incident in that database, which would make it second only to this summer’s fatal explosion in Lac-Megantic, which killed 47 people.

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The Canadian Press has prepared an interactive graphic looking at train-vehicle incidents across Canada in recent years – including location, conditions and severity. Take a look below.

With files from Leslie Young, Patrick Cain and The Canadian Press